Academics discuss Africa’s poverty at international conference
FIGHTING POVERTY: Delegates who attended the three-day international LAMIPISA Conference hosted by CPUT on the Cape Town Campus this week
Thursday, 08 September 2016
Delegates attending the 4th Leadership and Management in Projects-driven Industries in South Africa (LAMIPISA 2016) Conference were urged to not only diagnose the challenges facing the continent but also devise strategies to fix them.
The three-day LAMIPISA Conference, which was held recently on the Cape Town Campus, was organised by CPUT’s Department of Management and Project Management.
More than 70 papers were submitted to the conference whose theme was “Modelling Africa out of chronic poverty” and delegates from universities in the Slovac Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa attended the conference.
Prof Louis Fourie, DVC: Knowledge and Information Technology Services, challenged the delegates to move away from conferences that do not discuss the destiny of the continent.
“As we continue to meet year after year, our hope is that you should be able to start talking more openly about the future of the continent as academics,” said Fourie.
Willem Lotter, Acting Dean: Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, said getting the basics right is essential to build and strengthen capability and trust in order to achieve good governance and pride.
“I trust that the 70+ papers will not only diagnose the problem but also find a way to fix it, given liberty, high moral standing, political will and stability, so that we at LAMIPISA may combine to provide a Development Model incorporating the young, old, weak, needy and provide for our many African students the knowledge, guidance and insight to apply their education and create equal opportunities,” added Lotter.
Angela Buys, HoD: Management and Project Management, encouraged deliberations and research presentations that contribute towards, among others, models of aggressive but reasonable interventions, based on chronic poverty literature, to determine the possibility of increasing chronic poverty reduction.
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
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